insanity within wonderland.

information within smoke

The two began walking down the pathway, leafs crunching and small twigs crunching ever so lightly underneath their boots as they walked.

"So...., what does he look like?.."

cristel asked in order to break the silence between the two, its been silent sense they left the area cloud and nimbus was in, cristel could only feel sarrow and mercy for them and zavy, it seems like all three didn't even know they where being hacked until now...

"You'll know when we meet him..."

Mirage said, softly to try and calm cristel down of the incounters the two had faced, as they continued to walk, cristel could smell, smoke, not like a fire, cristel knew long ago what fire smells like...., no, this smoke is from......

"a-a...., a vape??....."

cristel asked herself before mirage corrected her.

"A hookapipe to be exact.., that means we're close.."

mirage said while gently grabbing cristels bandaged arm before she began coughing, mirage looks over at her and asked.

"Cristel??...., are you alright??...."

they asked before she nodded for a yes, grabbing a fabric mask she uses when smoke is nearby and put it on, that alone got mirage worried, cuz that implies cristel actually has asthma, that would explain why it took her a few moments to recollect while they bandaged her up earlier, as the two continued walking with each other until the two could barely see what's in front of them, as they got closer tho, they saw a huge mushroom nearly as big as her 'new' house, as the two watched the smoke clear away and the mushroom neeling down enough for someone to slide off and onto their feet, before slowly walking closer to them, the two saw cloudburst, as they saw he looks like below, not hacked to cristels own relief.

a rised eye brow from the 6 foot robot tall robot was all cristel needed in order to understand he is waiting on an answer to why they where here, so cristel began talking.

"w-we need help saving wonderland!"

cristel said, cloudbursts face turned from a stubborn and cold expression, to a more, Solim, stubborn and yet merciful look, before sighing to recollect himself, before he said.

"go on..."

he said, knowing who he is exactly talking to right now..

"we need to save wonderland!, we dunno what's happening or why everyone is acting strange and all hacked looking!, the red eyes, their faces, its all so familiar yet not at the same time!, everyone other than you, shura and mirage are acting nuts!, I can't seem to remember anyone but everyone remembers me!, and a whole bunch more!, what is happening!?..."

cristel said, nervous and scared, that only got a more, saddend and solim, expression from cloudburst in return, before he sighs to try and recollect himself before once again, before simply answering.

"your not going to like the answer I'll give cristel..., not one bit...."

he said with mercy in his eyes, cristel could only beg..

"I don't care if i like it or not!...., I Just wanna help everyone here even if it means my own life will be at stake!......"

cristel said, meaning every word She said, cloudburst could only blink from both at shock at how brave cristel as gotten over the years while she's gone..., and a bit of sadness..., knowing the answer long before this started......, cloudburst could only nod in understandment before walking back to the mushroom, only to grab a pipe and he took a big puff of smoke from just one huff of it, before blowing the smoke out, it circles before grabbing every addim and such to try and mirror events, cloudburst gently putting an arm around cristels shoulders and leads her to the memory, mirage following soon aftor, cloudburst could only look away, as to not see whats become of cristels old house, the flames licking up every wood, flesh, fabric and glass it can burn, cristel was blinded by her own reliving trauma, mirage was even distracted by what had become cristels old house..., her uncle....., her dog......

it was only when the house fires smoke began changing colors for only a split second was when the memory paused, when it paused cloudburst was able to look back at the memory before saying.

"now look at the flames smoke for a second cristel...."

cloudburst said, as a short loop of the flames clicking to life and roaring was shown, along with some of the before mentioned smoke, and cristel watched them, noticing a very, very suddle yellow and pink color within the flames and the smoke, the flames slightly sparkling deep within its hot and melting cage of red, orange and yellow, cristel knew that color from anywhere....

"s-so?..., flames are usually yellow..."

cristel said, not wishing to believe it, believe that she's here...., cloudburst could only say.

"with sparkles and pink yellow smoke inside its normal facade?.."

He asked, cristel could only nod for a no, coming to terms that she's here...., somewhere....

"to get to her, you have to get to the king of diamonds, and than get to the king of hearts, and than the king of spades.., that's where this all started..."

cristel could only nod for a yes before asking.

"but we don't know where to find either one of them..., we didn't even grab a map when we left zavys or nimbus&clouds locations..."

cristel stated, mirage could only nod in agreement to what cristel had just said, cloudburst however, giggled a little tiny bit before saying.

"Kid where we are going we won't need a map."

he said before pointing up, mirage and cristel followed their gaze up to what he's pointing at, and it, was the sky itself, cristel was confused by a ton while mirage had that 'of course' amazed face on theirs, next thing cristel knew was that cloudburst now looks like below.

cristel could only see this for a second before being swept up by cloudburst and he fly up and mirage follows suit by their own ability to fly, cristel hanging onto cloudbursts own sleeves for any hope of not falling mainly due to instinct, as they headed straight for the diamond kings castle...